What is Your Ambition? (Finding Your Life's Purpose)

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health

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🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Listen to episode 75 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is Your Ambition? (Finding Your Life's Purpose). Edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox. Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: The individual of definite purpose is the person of conquering spirit. They are the leaders and the molders of our environment. They set the pace for others and point the way. They know which way they are traveling, and why they are traveling, because they have a vision. They can see the end from the beginning, because they have created it in their imagination. Show me a young person who has set their definite mark, who has driven their imaginary stake, who has created within their imagination the position they propose to fill twenty years hence, and I shall show you someone who will work out in real life the pictures they first created in their imagination. But set no mark, dream no dream, build no air castles, have no definite aim, no vision of a larger self and a larger life, and you will be eternally doomed to drift and fail. You cannot avoid it. It is the law of life.... Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the inspirational living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen,
0:17.6	makers of inspirational fashioning gift ideas.
0:20.8	Visit them online at book of Zen.com.
0:23.9	Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox, published in 1920.
0:49.3	The Greatness is a great book. The great need of every nation, the great human need is for a vision of a larger life and its possibilities. Our vision is limited, our aspirations are limited, and therefore our possibilities are limited.
0:59.0	Our vision is limited because we lack a definite aim, a definite ambition, a definite purpose.
1:07.0	Rapidity rather than efficiency is the watchword of youth the young practice a hand-a-mouth
1:15.9	philosophy they have practically no vision of the future they are thinking of today and its
1:22.6	problems they are not thinking of what they might be doing in 20 or 25 years from now.
1:29.5	The average young person grows up with this kind of limited philosophy of life,
1:34.9	and when they become an adult, they still have an adolescence ambition,
1:40.5	an adolescence vision, an adolescence education, and does an adolescence work.
1:48.0	Then they wonder why they are not more successful.
1:51.7	There is an old story that used to be told about Charles Henry Fowler, the founder of the
1:57.2	University of Puget Sound. During the late 1800s Fowler took a trip abroad.
2:03.6	He visited every big city in the world, and when he came home, he said,
2:08.6	America is my alphabet.
2:12.6	The world is my textbook.
2:15.6	Standing on a great mental mountain peak, Fowler had a new vision of his own town, his
2:22.4	state, the nation, and the world.
2:26.8	Yet there are people in every town in our country who might say, This town is my alphabet,
2:33.4	and this country is my textbook.
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